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Today is the day that arcade fighting fans have been waiting for King of Fighters XII is finally out. I’ll be playing this game all week and will have my review up this weekend but I’ve been waiting for this series reboot with all new hand drawn 2d HD graphics for a long time. Back when I first played Capcom Vs SNK I thought that the King of Fighters characters were due for a new artistic makeover with modern graphics for modern systems. The new KOF 12 looks like a exciting blend of the hand crafted … …

Microsoft announced today at San Diego Comic Con that they are producing a series of animated movies based on Halo and they have signed on some of the top animated film makers and production studios in Japan. This comes on the heels of Hollywood failing to deliver a Halo movie twice. …

There are plenty of good games that are still worth writing about out there that I missed out on reviewing when they were brand spanking new. Most of these games are still on the market and are still just as good as the day they were published. Actually they could be better if they got software updates or DLC. Sometimes you can get older games at a discounted price or a used copy. …

Yesterday the New York Times published an article that implicitly painted all bloggers as paid PR stooges while claiming that the real journalists at newspapers would never engage in that. This started when the New York Times finally got around to noticing the proposed FTC rules on advertizing in dealing with published media, the internet media outlets had this issue months ago but the New York Times is a bit late to the party. Brian Crecente of Kotaku wrote an excellent article on the logic holes … …

On Saturday night my date and I attended the final performance of Distant Worlds: the music of Final Fantasy performed at the Seattle Symphony. There were performances Thursday through Saturday night. I really appreciated the press pass to the performance. Composer Nobuo Uematsu himself was in attendance all the way from Japan and had a reception afterward with Conductor Arnie Roth. …

Another PS3 and Xbox 360game due out later on this year is that I am curious about Army of Two: The 40th Day. The first game was an over the top military action game but with 2 player co-op built in as a major design element. The first game was not without some legitimate criticism. I am not the biggest first person shooter gamer but I do like some crazy action from time to time. If they take the complaints that people had with the first one and turn that into polish on the sequel this could be … …

Man alive, the wait for King of Fighters XII is almost unbearable. Check out the latest trailers. I medically need the new 2D HD Fighting goodness in my Xbox or PS3 STAT! It is due out later on this month but the Japanese release was delayed to tweak the networking. As a policy I will never fault a game developer for delaying a game if they need more time to polish the code but this game is going to be sweet. I am probably going to get the Xbox 360 version since my friend Noah does not have a PS3 … …

The one music game coming out this year that I am the most curious about is DJ Hero. This is an attempt to take the success that Activision has had with Rock and Metal games and take it into a different direction for with a new turn table controller and a selection of HipHop, Rap and Electronica. …